Monthly Archives: March 2014

A demonstrator builds a barricade in Kiev during protests that brought down Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP If one lesson can be drawn from the spate of street revolts rippling around the globe from south-east Asia to Europe to Latin America, it is that every revolution is different. At the same time, it

When exactly MH370 disappeared from Malaysian radar screens has become the source of much confusion today. The Guardian’s China correspondent, Tania Branigan, gives us this overview. Details of when MH370 was last seen are highly confusing, so bear with me: When the flight first went missing, Malaysia Airlines said repeatedly that its last contact was

Malaysia Airlines appears to have downplayed reports that Rolls Royce, the engine makers of the missing plane, may have received two sets of data on its whereabouts. Earlier this week the New Scientist revealed that one set of data tracked the plane after take-off and a second recorded it was during the climb towards Beijing.

From Cairo to Caracas: democracies shaken by protest – in pictures | World news | theguardian.com Some of the common factors behind the revolts from Egypt to Venezuela and from Thailand to Bosnia include ineffective institutions, misgovernance, deteriorating economic performance, failing social cohesion, the alienation of younger generations, ethnic and nationalist tensions and a lack

ADB did not consult the families affected during the design of the project and so has failed to compensate them for their compulsory relocation. Photograph: AFP In its efforts to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has placed good governance, civil society, accountability and information disclosure among its key